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Published in 1980s. Audrey Tomlinson was born in England where she trained as a nurse at the Children's and Royal Northern Hospitals, Liverpool, and Leeds and Lincoln Maternity Hospitals — In 1953 during the Malayan Emergency she went to Malaya under the auspices of the St. John's Amubulance Brigade, to live and work in Chinese villages. — In 196... more »7, after returning to England for a few years, she arrived in Australia and worked amongst the Aborigines on Campe York and Palm Island, Queensland.

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One of those self-published gems that the general public knows nothing about. Tomlinson's life is very interesting. Provides a good look at nursing several decades ago - both under civilized conditions and very primitive conditions. By turns humorous, sad, surprising.